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Fringe Arts
Bad Skin stronger than ever after pandemic related uncertainties
Montreal punk girl band take on a new genre in latest album.
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Opinions
Coping with code red
With Montreal in it’s second red zone, opinions writers share advice on how to make it through this next phase.
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Special Issue
Concordia resources available to students
A list of the services Concordia is offering to students.
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News
Local Initiatives Produce Protection for Frontline Workers
Montrealers are coming together and finding new ways to help frontliners.
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Special Issue
Photo Essay: A Portrait of How People Pray In Montreal
We visited their places of worship and learned about the different ways people pray across realities.
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News
Re-Storying The Land: Fifth Annual First Voices Week Promotes Indigenous Visibility
Concordia is hosting its fifth edition of First Voices Week to promote Indigenous visibility.
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Opinions
Bell, Let’s Talk
High-pressure jobs, impossible expectations, and a virtually non-existent mental health care plan reveal a harsher truth: Bell is just another giant media corporation capitalizing on a solitary hashtag.
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Fringe Arts
‘Winter’s Daughter’ Retells Family History in Poignant Play
What do you do when you have close to nothing, and lose everything? The play Winter’s Daughter answers: you keep fighting, and play the cards you are dealt.
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News
Love Letters to Survivors Provides Support to Survivors of Sexual Assault
Love Letters for Survivors provided a warm environment for survivors of sexual assault and allies alike.
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Fringe Arts
The #MeToo Movement Lives on in ‘Persephone Bound’
In a time where the #MeToo movement is prevalent, artists continues to create works that handle sexual harassment with poise and care.
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Fringe Arts
BAHAY Breaks the Boundaries of the Music Scene in Montreal’s Asian Community
It did not take long for Trinh and Capistrano to realize that they had created something special. Why not stretch that night further, they thought, into a full-fledged organization? BAHAY began as a one-time event and then turned into an organization offering up-and-coming artists a platform while also raising funds for charities.
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Fringe Arts
The Racist Undercurrents of Migration and Asylum-Seeking
On Sept. 30, Cinema Politica screened the second of this semester’s series of films in the Hall Building. Two films under the topic of migrant rights and activism were presented.
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Fringe Arts
Montreal Feminist Film Festival Fulfills a Need
“There’s a lot of women who have penetrated very masculine sectors, but the contrary is less,” explained film director Martine Asselin.
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News
It Takes All of Us Online Consent Training Faces Backlash
Many feel that a lack of systematic change overrides the university’s attempt at a training.
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Fringe Arts
Decolonizing Art At Peripheral Hours and Métèque
Born in Montreal to Chinese immigrant parents in the era of Bill 101, Chan said she has always been questioning her identity. She spent her childhood assimilating and integrating with Quebec’s francophone culture. She learned to navigate the realms of identity politics that strike the province and learned to speak the language. Blending into the landscape, she molded herself into a “Quebecer.”
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Fringe Arts
VR Experience ‘Biidaaban: First Light’ Immerses Audience in Toronto’s Future
You’re standing in the middle of downtown Toronto at Nathan Phillips Square, one of its busiest intersections. Trees weave in and out of the cityscape, standing tall amongst abandoned skyscrapers. Plants are growing through the cracks in the cement, and the sky is high, gleaming in a clear baby blue.
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News
Protests Denouncing Secularism Law Continue
After having the secularism law formerly known as Bill 21 implemented for a month, protesters continue their demand to have the law changed.
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News
Protesters Denounce ICE at Montreal’s United States Consulate
Since 2012, ICE has detained nearly 1500 U.S. citizens, the main targets being children of immigrants, and citizens born outside of the U.S. Forced to prove their American citizenship, detainees spend nights in detention facilities, away from friends and family. Protesters stood in solidarity with detained migrants.
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Fringe Arts
VAV Gallery Eases Into the Fall With ‘It’s Always Better to Wear a Mask’
“Reach out and wade into the hazy, indeterminate past. Imagine your partner’s first memory.”
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Fringe Arts
Rosie Bourgeoisie: Opulent and Voluptuous
“I let go of all my barriers that I had before, I let go of all [of] what people could think of me. I just abandoned myself to this art and to this character that I was building.”